Chapter 1193

Liu Jinghui's question left even Jiang Yuan speechless.

To be honest, Jiang Yuan didn't see anything wrong with having artwork in a cattle farm. If he were to be perfectly honest with himself, if Comrade Jiang Fujian had a sudden lapse in judgment or a slip of the hand and inexplicably bought some artwork to keep in the cattle farm, it wouldn't be strange at all.

But looking at it from another angle, even if Jiang Fujian were to keep artwork in the cattle farm, it would be because he liked spending time there, not because he had a cattle farm and decided to put artwork inside it.

And what kind of cattle farm owner who actually likes art would put a painting by Zhang Daqian in an environment like a cattle farm? Not to mention that the temperature and humidity are hard to control, the environment of a cattle farm isn't exactly suitable for appreciating calligraphy and paintings, is it?

However, Jiang Yuan hadn't considered these issues before. His approach to solving cases was based on technology; in a sense, it was just brute force.

If there were fingerprints, he'd use fingerprints; if there were footprints, he'd use footprints. Other tool marks, or bloodstains, bones, or whether it was a whole or partial corpse, could all be breakthroughs for Jiang Yuan to solve a case. Besides that, Jiang Yuan's image investigation skills had also developed rapidly over the past year—or one could describe it as having been acquired.

With this combination of techniques, normal criminals really couldn't hold up against him.

The confrontation between police and criminals is very unfair in this country, especially in recent years. Never mind criminal gangs and secret societies; even organized crime has been pretty much wiped out. Without an organization behind them, ordinary criminals have almost no chance to refine their techniques or develop their personal capabilities.

Jiang Yuan turned his head to look at Liu Jinghui and said, "Director Liu, could you talk about the case?"

Liu Jinghui waved his hand. "There's too little information; I was just giving a reminder. You could ask the people at the cattle farm about the question I just raised—see when they bought the paintings and when they put them in the cattle farm."

Jiang Yuan nodded and said, "Then let's follow Director Liu's method. Captain Wang?"

"I'll make a call to the team." Wang Zhihao immediately took out his phone and made the call on the spot.

The police officers in the auditorium began to discuss it loudly.

Whether it was insurance fraud or an inside job, it actually contained a point that was very interesting: premeditated crime.

To this day, the premeditated crimes encountered by ordinary police are becoming fewer and fewer; most are crimes of passion. Since this case clearly had a trend of becoming complicated, everyone started guessing wildly.

Wang Zhihao was holding his phone and originally wanted to step aside, but seeing that the atmosphere at the scene had been built up to this point, he simply dialed back to the team on the spot and ordered, "Old Zhou, take three people to the Mujian Cattle Farm and take a detailed statement from them. If necessary, bring the people back..."

Wang Zhihao gave detailed instructions without avoiding anyone. The group of criminal police officers listening actually found it quite relatable—so the captain of another team is like this too, then I can rest easy—that was roughly the feeling.

After he finished, Jiang Yuan took over the conversation and said, "Looking at it now, this case has some substance. Since that's the case, let's process this case in order. First, let's screen for the possibility of an inside job. Captain Wang, do you have a list of the interpersonal relationships of the 25 people working at the cattle farm?"

"I have one; I'll send you an email." Wang Zhihao had prepared himself mentally when he came to see Jiang Yuan, and now he was treating him according to the standard for a deputy department-level official.

"Chuanxing." Jiang Yuan didn't need to look at the email himself, so he turned his head and said, "Distribute these 25 people among everyone. We have about 200 people here, right? Ten people per group. Each group should analyze the list of interpersonal relationships and submit a report. Um... those who are too busy or have work tonight don't have to participate; just form your own groups."

With the current police force allocation, it's easy to form a special task force of over 200 people, but to form a team of over 200 people just to study the interpersonal relationships of 25 people—that's something that wouldn't even be enough for a family that only has one or two children encountering a mass murder case.

Wang Zhihao didn't say a word as he listened to Jiang Yuan's orders.

Jiang Yuan's arrangement clearly wasn't limited to investigating the list he had given. Ten-plus people studying one person at the cattle farm... Wang Zhihao, this captain, only had ten-plus people under him.

So, if one looks at it more openly, it's only natural for others to expand the investigation list, and it's only natural for them to discover situations he hadn't investigated.

As for where one can't look at it openly—actually, Wang Zhihao couldn't help but look at it openly. Just as was said before, police are the most socialized members among teachers, doctors, and civil servants, which is to say, they are the group of people who are the most open-minded.

In this world, the ones who are often unable to look at things openly are teachers; they are also the group among teachers, doctors, and civil servants who are the most detached from society. They don't have to face a complex environment, and they are surrounded by a healthy and sunny group of students, so they have the qualifications to be unable to look at things openly and be cynical.

Police have seen dead people and can truly see how people die; they can even see what kind of end people who can't look at things openly meet.

The more tragic things they see, the more open-minded they can be about some small daily matters and conflicts; the more fortunate things they see, the more unable they are to look at some small daily matters and conflicts...

The criminal police officers in the auditorium were quite proactive.

On one hand, just listening to lectures like this is quite boring. Although everyone came to receive training voluntarily, it's just like people who spend money to buy courses online—it's easy to buy courses but hard to study on one's own. Now that there's something to do, it actually makes people feel relaxed and comfortable.

On the other hand, the police officers who came to participate in the training were all on the clever side. Now that they had been assigned work by Jiang Yuan in groups, naturally, some people were thinking about wanting to stand out. And in any group, if there's such a person, the desire to win kicks in.

Disciplined forces encourage the desire to win. In any competition, even if it has no meaning, as long as it's a competition, members of disciplined forces will naturally become competitive. If pooping fast could get you on the small blackboard, there wouldn't be a single cigarette butt on the toilet floor.

The auditorium soon began to buzz with noise.

The 25 teams varied in size, and each had its own screening routine. Jiang Yuan didn't care about these things and sat on the stage, looking at the pictures and videos in the case files.

Nowadays, people's interpersonal relationships are basically impossible to hide. Unless it's a fake identity or they live deep in the mountains, call records are never deleted, and WeChat records are the same. If one is willing to spend a little effort, one can even extract WeChat chat records; even if the person deletes them, the server side still stores them.

As for hotel check-in records and the like, it's even simpler; any police officer can check them on the police terminal. If it needs to be more complicated, it's like the "spatiotemporal overlap" and "spatiotemporal companions" during the pandemic; one can basically check a person's behavioral trajectory during a period to the bottom, it just depends on how detailed one wants to check.

Like the investigation this time, because the number of people being investigated was too large, it was clearly going to be checked extra meticulously.

Soon, someone began to submit the list of suspects.

Without Jiang Yuan having to specify, Wang Chuanxing had already sent the notice previously used by the special task force to the large group of training personnel. This included the rules for questioning relevant personnel.

With so many people grouped together, naturally, one couldn't just call and question relevant personnel whenever one wanted to; if one were to alert the enemy, everything would be in vain. Furthermore, telephone questioning can only ask about some scattered matters; when it comes to interests, even if you state your identity, the other party won't say what they won't say, wasting the opportunity for the first interrogation in vain.

Therefore, the police officers of each group at the scene handed the list of suspects they had sorted out to Wang Chuanxing, and Wang Chuanxing then transferred them to Wang Zhihao, who would naturally organize the personnel at home to go and investigate.

By dinner time, the dozen or so suspects on one list had all been investigated once.

"Currently, looking at it, there are no obvious signs of crime among those on the list, including two people released after serving their sentences, who both have relatively solid alibis." Wang Chuanxing then summarized the list for Jiang Yuan and specifically mentioned: "The Liyuan Municipal Bureau heard that you took over the case and let the technical investigation team intervene, but they didn't find anything either."

"This is a bit interesting." Liu Jinghui came over at this time and said, "An inside job is the only state that fits a natural entry. If it's not an inside job, it's either internal personnel cooperating with external personnel to commit the crime, or it must be a very professional thief. Artwork worth millions or tens of millions is worth it, though."

"But there's no way to explain the problem of putting Zhang Daqian's paintings in the cattle farm." Wang Zhihao said in reverse at this time: "Calculating it this way, does the cattle farm owner have the greatest suspicion?"

(End of chapter)